Word: cranach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is an interesting exhibit of sixteenth century German wood-cuts in the Print Room of Fogg Museum. Works by Durer and Cranach form the main body of the small collection. Both of these men lived in a country which had not yet undergone the comparatively complete liberation from the medieval tradition which the southern countries of Europe had succeeded in doing. Whereas the sixteenth century Italian artists were busily engaged in developing what can be called a Renaissance style, German artists of the same period were still in the process of reconciling the element of Gothicism with...